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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In November 1881, who dies the apparent victim of malaria, the most common tropical disease?
(a) Abel Couvreux.
(b) Henri Bionnr.
(c) Gaston Blanchet.
(d) Lieutenant Reclus.

2. Based on various exploratory expeditions through 1875, at least how many points in Central America are determined to be sufficiently narrow to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 19.
(d) 7.

3. The cream of the crop of 19th-century French engineers are trained at what two institutions (the most brilliant at the former, and only its top graduates at the latter)?
(a) Ycole Polytechnique and Ycole des Ponts et Chausyes.
(b) Universite Polytechnique et Paris and Ycole des Ponts et Chausyes.
(c) Ycole des Ponts et Paris and Ycole Polytechnic et Chausyes.
(d) Ycole des Ponts et Chausyes and Ycole Polytechnique.

4. For what purpose does Navy Secretary George M. Robeson direct Commander Thomas O. Selfridge to the Isthmus of Darien at Caledonia Bay, some 150 miles to the east of the Panama Canal Railroad on January 10, 1870?
(a) To gather germanic and botswanic specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.
(b) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the naratives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.
(c) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astrological observations.
(d) To gather geological and botanical specimens, report on the natives and climate, and to take astronomical observations.

5. The Chamber of Deputies is lobbied by stockholders to grant a Suez-style lottery bond issue proposed by Ferdinand de Lesseps, and he announces what?
(a) He will inspect Panama personally.
(b) He will send noted engineer, Armand Rousseau, to independently inspect.
(c) A new director general will accompany noted engineer, Armand Rousseau, to independently inspect.
(d) He will accompany noted engineer, Armand Rousseau, to independently inspect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Turr Syndicate directed by?

2. Who is hired as America's first chief engineer for the canal project, with the understanding he need not move to the isthmus?

3. When Phillippe Banau-Varilla resigns as Panamanian envoy, resumes publishing Le Matin, and asks the salary due him be reserved to build a monument to whom?

4. Who offers a solution letting Ferdinand de Lesseps extract himself honorably and gain income from tolls coming in?

5. Ferdinand de Lesseps is from a family entrenched in the diplomatic services, which he enters at age 19, and he becomes interested in construction of canals when?

(see the answer key)

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